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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JONATHAN MAINE LOWE

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Mar 24, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Jeffrey C. Coller and Travis E. Dorman (on appeal and at motion for new trial), and Joseph A. Fanduzz (at trial and sentencing), Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Jonathan Maine Lowe.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Benjamin L. Barker, Assistant Attorney General; Jared R. Effler, District Attorney General; and Apryl C. Bradshaw and David M. Pollard, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): HIXSON

The Defendant, Jonathan Maine Lowe, appeals his convictions for five counts of aggravated sexual battery, one count of rape of a child, one count of rape, two counts of incest, and two counts of child abuse or neglect, for which he received an effective eighty-year sentence in confinement. On appeal, he argues that the trial court erred by: (1) denying his motion to suppress statements made at the Department of Children’s Services (“DCS”) office because such statements were elicited pursuant to a custodial interrogation prior to his being given Miranda warnings; (2) improperly commenting on the evidence by incorporating the State’s bill of particulars into its jury instructions as part of the State’s election of offenses; and (3) relative to his convictions for child abuse or neglect, providing an incorrect statement of law by giving a jury instruction for “child neglect” rather than for “child abuse.” Additionally, the Defendant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support his convictions for child abuse, or in the alternative, child neglect. After review, we affirm.

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